Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-09-05
A QUEER SET.

The Remarks of Central Dakota
Paper Upon their Eccentricities.
Aberdeen Pioaeer: The anti divls-
ionists are 6 queer set of fellows. They
say no matter how the people OF Dakota
may vote, it will make not the slightest
difference in the world-we shall have
to come into the union Just as congress-
shall decide to. admit us--one state or
two, according to which party may be
IN control Of congress-. If this as 80,
"why5do the heatnen rage and imagine
vain things?' Let the people vote.
An election is to be held any way. 1t
will not add one cent to ths cost of the
election to vote on the question of divis.
len. The proposition has been sub
mitted by an act of the legislature: the
voting, according to our anti division
friends, will have no feet on the pow.
rs that be-. Where, then, is the necess-
.lty for them to get SO stirred
up and excited over the ques-
ton? II they are right in what they
say division will depend entirely upon
the supremacy of one party or the other
IN congress-. Admission as @ whole is
the democratic idea, and division as two
states is now the republican iden. A
majority of the people OF Dakota are In
favor Ut the republican ,dea-thsy will
say 80 at the polls in November. Some
republicans will vote with the democrats
on this question aud some democrats will
vote for the republicans, being governed
more by local prejudice and conceit then
by fealty to party or by abstract prinoi-
pie. Here in Aberdeen there is q senti-
ment of hostility to division, which is
purely local. It has been created by
the idea that in case the territory is
admitted as q whole the capital might
bs removed from Bismarck to
Aberdeen. This we conceive to be an
idle DEAN. By opposing division now
we will forever alienate from us the
friendship of the south; and it is not to
be supposed that the Bismarck ring
would have such o lively sense of graft
tnde towards Aberdeen that it would
hurry to- transfer the capital here. Once
ID the union as a great grand state, the
north end the south would shake hands
across Central Dakota, and the influence
OF these central counties would be no
greater in the n great state than is the
influence OF the central counties OF the
state of Pennsylvapia, when Pltrsburg
and Philadelphia act together, and they
always combine forces when they want
anything, paying no regard to central
counties and cities. Ex-
ffemes are always ready to combine in
politics. Central Dakota iii the great
state would find herself ground to pow.
Ger by the combination OF the Black
Hilla, Yankton and Sioux Falls in the,
south and Fargo, Grand Forks, James.
town and Bismarck in the north. Our
position would be much better as the
northern section of tine state of south
Dakota, where influence would be
great end command respect, than to be
the central belt of the great grand state
and ground to powder at every session
OF b Legislature by q combination of the
y great sectiops-north and south.
The most we could ever hope TO be-
would be the tail of the political kite of
n or the other of them-socepting for
services rendered a meagre mess oil DO.
litical pottage. AS to the location OF
one CITY as Q commercial and trade cen
ter 1t cannot be affected one way or
another by division or admission as a
whole. These are the views of the
n upon this subject. They may
q coanter to the views of many of our
citizens, but they are sincerely enter
tanned and will be fearlessly advocated
although there is no particular reason
Tor getting boiling hot on the subject.